Please Mr editor can you do a favour for not sending any mail to me. >From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Taylor: Hearing On Preliminary Objections Begins Today in Sierra > Leone >Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:55:14 +0000 > >folks, is Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola the Chief justice of Gambia? >Please read on. > > >Taylor: Hearing On Preliminary Objections Begins Today in Sierra Leone > > >This Day (Lagos) > >October 31, 2003 >Posted to the web October 31, 2003 > >Lillian Okenwa >Abuja > >Former Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor, currently facing charges of >war crimes and crimes against humanity has filed a notice of preliminary >objection challenging the jurisdiction of the Special Court in Sierra Leone >to try him. > >The court sitting in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, will today begin >public hearing into the objections raised by Taylor. > >The Session to be presided by a Queens Counsel, England's equivalent of a >Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Geoffrey Robertson (QC), also has Justice >Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola who retired last Monday from the Supreme Court and >is currently the Chief Justice of Gambia as a panel member. > >The court will sit from October 31 to November 7, 2003. > >In a statement signed by Mr. Femi Falana, secretary, African Bar >Association >(ABA), the association said Taylor is challenging the competence of his >indictment on the grounds that he enjoyed immunity as a head of state of >the >sovereign state of Liberia when he was alleged to have committed the said >war crimes in Sierra Leone. > >Also, Taylor is challenging the legality of the execution of his arrest >warrant outside the borders of Sierra Leone. > >Some of the questions the Special Court would determine today include: > >whether the court has been lawfully established; whether the court's >voluntary funding by the United Nation's member states deprives it of the >necessary guarantees of independence and impartiality; whether the >indictment of Charles Taylor at the time he was Liberian President or >subsequently was invalid because he was immune from prosecution; whether in >any event the writ issued him by the court can run outside Sierra Leone; >whether the indictees can benefit from an amnesty or undertaking not to >prosecute, allegedly given them before or in Lome agreement; and whether >there is a crime of recruiting child soldiers in customary international >law. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Fretting that your Hotmail account may expire because you forgot to sign in >enough? Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! >http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~